Remembering the birthday of #SeamusHeaney I am riding a spiral of #words – I #amwriting #poetry
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More: Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA, award-winning #Irish #poet #playwright and #translator - Nobel Prize in Literature 1995 - www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...
#amreading #quotes on #language
#SeamusHeaney was born in Northern #Ireland #OnThisDay in 1939, winning the #NobelPrize for #literature in 1995; I have his brilliant translation of #Beowulf of which excerpts are available here:
blueridgejournal.com/poems/sh-beo...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_...
“Human beings suffer,
They torture one another,
They get hurt and get hard.
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.”
- #SeamusHeaney (born: 13 April 1939)
#SeamusHeaney is buried at St. Mary’s Church, Bellaghy, Northern Ireland. The headstone bears the epitaph “Walk on air against your better judgement,” from his poem “The Gravel Walks.”
#SeamusHeaney was born in the townland of Tamniaran, near Castledawson, Northern Ireland. He lived part-time in the U.S. from 1981 to 2006. He was a professor at #Harvard from 1981 to 1997, & their #Poet in Residence from 1988-2006. From 1989 to 1994, he was also the Professor of #Poetry at #Oxford.
Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as “probably the best-known poet in the world.”
#SeamusHeaney
Seamus Heaney received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is “Death of a Naturalist” (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as “the most important Irish poet since Yeats.”
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“If you have the words, there’s always a chance that you’ll find the way.” —Seamus Heaney
Happy birthday to the late great Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney (April 13, 1939-August 30, 2013).
#SeamusHeaney #IrishPoet #Poetry #PowerofWords
Happy Birthday to Seamus Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013)!! 🥳🎉 #hbd #SeamusHeaney #irishstudies
Born on this day in 1939, Seamus Heaney was a Nobel Prize–winning poet whose work explores memory, land, and identity. His poetry balances the grounded and the transcendent.
“Walk on air against your better judgement.” — The Gravel Walks, Station Island
#SeamusHeaney #OTD
Happy birthday, #SeamusHeaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013). Your words still root us in place and memory. 🤍
#SeamusHeaney was born #OnThisDay in 1939.
Celebrate the life, work, and enduring legacy of one of Ireland’s most cherished literary voices at Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again.
🕰️ Open today until 4pm — plan your visit: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/exhib...
Online Book Club | Stepping Stones
Fri, 24 April at 1pm: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/onlin...
Join us for our monthly online book club, as we come together to discuss #SteppingStones: Interviews with #SeamusHeaney, in honour of what would have been his 87th bday.
"If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/seamus...
✒️ #SeamusHeaney, Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in #Literature 1995), was #BOTD 13 April 1939. #Poetry
The Flora & Fauna of Seamus Heaney: #Fauna
📅 Sat, 18 April at 2pm: https://ow.ly/lBZr50YALVq
#SeamusHeaney: Listen Now Again welcomes Paolo Viscardi, Keeper of Natural History at the NMI. Explore the animals in Heaney’s poetry through readings + insights into Ireland’s wildlife.
Human beings suffer, They torture one another, They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured History says, don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells. Call miracle self-healing: The utter, self-revealing Double-take of feeling. If there’s fire on the mountain Or lightning and storm And a god speaks from the sky That means someone is hearing The outcry and the birth-cry Of new life at its term. It means once in a lifetime That justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme.
#Poetry
#BlueskyPoetry
#SeamusHeaney
On the 28th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. Fitting then. Fitting now.
From 'The Cure at Troy', translated by Seamus Heaney
A remarkable, worthwhile tour. Don't miss it. I'd love to attend again... #SeamusHeaney
Online Book Club | Stepping Stones
Fri, 24 April at 1pm: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/onlin...
Join us for our monthly online book club, as we come together to discuss #SteppingStones: Interviews with #SeamusHeaney, in honour of what would have been his 87th bday.
The Flora & Fauna of Seamus Heaney: #Fauna
📅 Sat, 18 April at 2pm: https://ow.ly/lBZr50YALVq
#SeamusHeaney: Listen Now Again welcomes Paolo Viscardi, Keeper of Natural History at the NMI. Explore the animals in Heaney’s poetry through readings + insights into Ireland’s wildlife.
This piece gets past the polished surface and into the uncertainty that runs through Heaney’s work, where the tension between private voice and public role is never resolved (and the poetry is stronger for that). #SeamusHeaney #Poetry #IrishPoetry #LiteraryCriticism
Online Book Club | Stepping Stones
Fri, 24 April at 1pm: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/onlin...
Join us for our monthly online book club, as we come together to discuss #SteppingStones: Interviews with #SeamusHeaney, in honour of what would have been his 87th bday.
The Flora & Fauna of Seamus Heaney: #Fauna
📅 Sat, 18 April at 2pm: https://ow.ly/lBZr50YALVq
#SeamusHeaney: Listen Now Again welcomes Paolo Viscardi, Keeper of Natural History at the NMI. Explore the animals in Heaney’s poetry through readings + insights into Ireland’s wildlife.
‘Blooms & Pigments’ | Pressed Flower Bookmark Workshop 🌸
Welcome in spring with a relaxed, creative workshop inspired by the poetry of #SeamusHeaney
📅 Sat, 11 April at 2pm:
https://ow.ly/Uvb650YAJXl
Come along and leave with something beautiful, handmade, and uniquely your own!
Online Book Club | Stepping Stones
Fri, 24 April at 1pm: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/onlin...
Join us for our monthly online book club, as we come together to discuss #SteppingStones: Interviews with #SeamusHeaney, in honour of what would have been his 87th bday.
The cover of 100 Poems by Seamus Heaney, a black-and-white photograph of the white-haired poet leaning over the back of a wooden chair in a library, looking off into some near distance, shelves of books in the background behind him.
"Late August, given heavy rain and sun
For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.
At first, just one, a glossy purple clot
Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.
You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it..."
#poetry #seamusheaney
The Flora & Fauna of Seamus Heaney: #Fauna
📅 Sat, 18 April at 2pm: https://ow.ly/lBZr50YALVq
#SeamusHeaney: Listen Now Again welcomes Paolo Viscardi, Keeper of Natural History at the NMI. Explore the animals in Heaney’s poetry through readings + insights into Ireland’s wildlife.
‘Blooms & Pigments’ | Pressed Flower Bookmark Workshop 🌸
Welcome in spring with a relaxed, creative workshop inspired by the poetry of #SeamusHeaney
📅 Sat, 11 April at 2pm:
https://ow.ly/Uvb650YAJXl
Come along and leave with something beautiful, handmade, and uniquely your own!
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
– #SeamusHeaney
